Jack Levine Quotes

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

When I'm happy and everything's great, I'm not creative at all.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do?

Passions are the gales of life.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Desire creates the power.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

When I'm not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.